The updated version of the high resolution music player comes with a revamped UI on a 2-inch touchscreen

FiiO has announced the second generation of the FiiO X1 portable high resolution music player in India. Priced at Rs.7,499, the FiiO X1 second generation sports a touch wheel, revamped UI design with theme support, a 2-inch LCD screen, support for microSD cards upto 256 GB, all packed in an aluminium alloy body. The player also comes with Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity and a F1C81 chipset, that allow users to enjoy music with reduced latency and in high sound quality, as claimed by the company.

You can read the full press release below.

FiiO announces the launch of the brand new FiiO X1 2nd Generation Portable High Resolution Music Player in India

17th October 2016; Mumbai – FiiO announces the launch of the brand new FiiO X1 2nd Generation Portable High Resolution Music Player in India.

The new 2nd generation FiiO X1 brings comprehensive improvements of performance, ergonomics and design, starting with its touch wheel. Light and portable, its aluminum alloy body is compact with a natural arc contour for comfortable hand-holding.Featuring a new UI design with theme support on a bright 2-inch LCD screen. Use with micro SD cards up to 256GB for practically endless music playback.Available in three popular colors (Silver/Rose Gold/Black).

Key Features of the X1 2nd Gen:
Comprehensive improvement of hand feeling starting from the touch wheel
By studying and comparing dozens of designs and through hundreds of experiments and tests, we have finally developed the unique FiiO touch wheel with higher sensitivity, better anti-interference, enhanced reliability and longer service life.

Wireless Bluetooth 4.0 and Improved LO funtions allowing you to enjoy music easily
The Bluetooth 4.0 system based on F1C81 chip set allows you to easily enjoy the music with reduced latency and high sound quality. It supports both headphone output and line output, which can be used as audio source to your amplifier to increase your pleasure in listening to music. Line output can be easily set in system settings.

Dedicated professional high quality DAC chip
Utilizes Texas Instruments’ high quality CM5242, the all new X1 gets higher signal-to-noise ratio and supports full differential line output to achieve balanced line output function, as compared with PCM5142 of last generation. With dedicated LPF and operational amplifier, we have optimized design of power architecture and circuit at the same time to further improve sound quality of second generation X1/ the all new X1, makingbetter low-frequency quality and depth.

Strong lossless format support
It supports five common major lossless formats: APE/FLAC/WAV/WMA/ALAC at up to 192 kHz/32bit.

All-new UI themed interface
Continue to use 2.0 inch color display with a resolution of 320*240, plus characteristic UE operating system (with three built-in color themes available at your choice).

Music enjoyment for 30 thousand minutes
Supports micro SD card up to 256GB. When calculated by 30MB for a piece of lossless music, it can accommodate approximately 8,738 pieces of music. If a piece of song lasts for four minutes, you may listen for 34,952 minutes, i.e. 2,098 hours or 87 days.

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